“Born in Vienna in 1929, she was raised by her mother who, in March 1939, put her on a Kindertransport train to Britain to escape the Nazis. Her mother was able to follow her to England a few months later and Hella spent her formative years in the Lake District.(more…)

yesterday (friday 28th), 1.51-1.59pm (repeated 9.51pm), on bbc world service radio, and 10.07-10.09pm and 10.16-10.23pm on bbc radio 4newshour (presented by julian marshall) and the world tonight (presented by sean ley) include …

“The acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz has died at the age of 79. His most famous works include Black Box and In the Land of Israel. He won numerous literary prizes, both in Israel and internationally, and was regularly touted as a favourite for the Nobel Prize for Literature.”

“Adrian Goldberg is a Radio 5 Live presenter who’s deciding whether to get a German passport in order to remain an EU citizen. Adrian’s father Rudy escaped Nazi Germany as a 13-year-old when his parents, worried about the increasing persecution of Germany’s Jews, found him a place on the kindertransport. Rudy became one of the 10,000 youngsters relocated to families in the UK on the eve of the Second World War …Today, Adrian tries to understand more about his father’s journey to this country. and what he would make of Adrian’s dilemma.”
“Today, Adrian heads to Berlin. Have the Jews simply been replaced by the Muslims as a persecuted minority?”